@gustavo-de-miranda.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist | Arachnologist | Research Scientist. Current @UNLincon. Past @MuseuNacional, @NHM_Denmark, and @NMNH @smithsonian.
Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). Youβll team up with the incoming Curator (π me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections
15.06.2025 02:33 β π 20 π 21 π¬ 1 π 1
Do you have a PhD in STEM and looking to pivot to a different subdiscipline? The Simons Foundation's Pivot Fellowship provides 1 year of salary + $10k for research + travel to the fellow and $50k to their mentor. Apply by 12:00 PM (ET), May 15, 2025. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... π§ͺ
14.04.2025 14:11 β π 20 π 19 π¬ 0 π 0Wait, what?! π±
27.02.2025 17:26 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position?
Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.
canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/
Hello! Yes, I can help or find someone who can give you all the pseudoscorpion answers :)
18.02.2025 00:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Some local (NE Oklahoma) symphylans to illustrate a difference between the two families -
Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2)
...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)
Thanks @plantpollinator.bsky.social Kelsey Byers for sharing knowledge about accessible fieldwork & a link to a useful guide created by Chloe Stevens. Take homes include bidirectional communication and trust, and improving accessibility helps EVERYone!! #PlantSciEd
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A dialogue box showing a conversation between my colleague and I discussing how we got into spiders. Korean text: νκΈ Dialogue "κ±°λ―Έ μ°κ΅¬μλ€μ΄ κ±°λ―Έμ μ¬λμ λΉ μ§ μκ°" μ΄ν: μ΄λ»κ² μ²μ κ±°λ―Έλ₯Ό μ’μνκ² λμ΄? μ ν: μ΄λ¦΄ λ κ±°λ―Έλ₯Ό 무μμνμ΄. μ΄μ©λ€κ° νλΆ λ κ³€μΆ© λ°λ¬Όκ΄μμ κ±°λ―Έλ₯Ό κ΄λ¦¬νλ μΌμ 맑μμ κ΄μ¬μ΄ μκ²Όμ§. κ·Έλ¬λ€κ° 2018λ μ λ§λ€κ°μ€μΉ΄λ₯΄μ μ¬νμ κ°λλ°, κ±°κΈ°μ 'Darwin's bark spider(λ€μμ λ무κ»μ§κ±°λ―Έ)'λΌλ μΈκ³μμ κ°μ₯ ν° κ±°λ―Έμ€μ λ§λλ κ±°λ―Έλ₯Ό λ³΄κ² λμ΄. κ±°λ―Έμ€μ΄ μΌλ§λ λ©μ§λμ§! μ΄ν: λλ μ·¨ν₯μ΄ μ°Έ.... English Translation: Dialogue βThe moment spider researchers fell in love with spiders.β Yihang: How did you first like spiders? Jeong-hwa: I was afraid of spiders when I was young. I got interested in taking care of them at an insect museum when I was an undergraduate. Then, in 2018, I went on a trip to Madagascar, where I saw Darwin's Bark Spider, a spider that makes the world's largest web. How wonderful the web is! Yihang: You have very interesting taste.
𧡠1/ Words cannot describe publishing my first article in Korea as an adoptee. I am coauthoring a series on arachnid behavior in Donga Science (κ³Όνλμ). It is surreal to see my Korean name in print.
Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter.
[Korean and English translation in alt text.]
Chonky teardrop shaped pseudoscorpion with sparse white setae all over, and modest pinchy claws at the ready
Slim reddish brown pseudoscorpion with long pinchy arms and extremely long crabby grabby claws on them.
Pale chonky pseudoscorpion with red legs and thick beefy pinchy arms
Tiny pale slim pseudoscorpion with long delicate grabby claws
There's at least 4 different pseudoscorpion species living under the bark of a small patch of mahogany trees, and that makes me happy. π€
I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways.
#InverteFest
π New #genome resources expand possibilities for #insect models
π’Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness
π΅Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data
π£Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
crab anatomy diagram that covers the basics of the crab anatomy and names of various body parts
diagram that shows the various different shapes of crab claws and how the shapes relate to their lifestyles
diagram showing the various segments of crab legs and how the different leg shapes relate to their lifestyles
diagram showing all the complicated limbs that sprout out from a crab's face
Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization.
Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
It occurs to me that many of you may never have seen a squirting cucumber in action, please allow me remedy that for you
As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) π§ͺ
Thank you!
26.11.2024 20:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. π·οΈ
I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
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26.11.2024 20:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A Lancet editorial highlights the reality: nature & biodiversity underpin our survival. We must act decisively-75% of emerging diseases stem from disrupted ecosystems. There are ethical/moral arguments for protecting biodiversity. + Nature's health is our health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
25.11.2024 18:52 β π 100 π 47 π¬ 2 π 2
Dorsal view of male strepsipteran, or twisted-wing parasite, on a light gray background. Overall, the insect is light brown with slightly dusky wings. The large, fan-shaped wings are open on either side of the body and the coarsely faceted eyes are clearly visible. There is a one millimeter scale bar on the left side of the image; the length of the insect is less than 2 mm.
Q: Stressed?!
A: Striking Strepsipteran:
#Wasp(Parasite)Love
#MalaiseTrapBycatch
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied!
#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy
π§ͺ image from Troudet et al 2018
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
Thank you!
18.11.2024 16:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Arachnids count as well?! π· π
18.11.2024 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βοΈ
Thank you!
